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\ FOLDING METAL GOT OR BEDSTEAD.

No. 452,737. Patented May 19, 1891.

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. FOLDING'METAL GOT OR BEDSTEAD. Nb. 452,737. Patented May 19,1891.

WITNESSES: INVENTOH n BY A TTOHNE Y8 Unirrnn STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

EDWIN F. TILLEY, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK A. HALL, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING M'ETAL COT OR BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,737, dated May 19, 1891.

Application filed January 1'7, 1891. Serial No, 378,036- (No model.) 7

T aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN F. TILLEY, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Metal Cots or Bedsteads, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

7 This invention more particularly relates to folding iron bedsteads, and is designed as an to improvement upon the wooden cot or bedstead for which Letters Patent No. 375,303 were issued to Frank A. Hall, as assignor of myself, December 20, 1887, The invention has for its object an improved 5 construction of the folding parts in connection with an angle-iron main frame within which the legs and their stays close when shut; and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combina- 2 tion of parts of the folding bedstead, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed, and whereby a simple and inexpensive bedstead of the character here referred to is produced, which, while it admits of being con- I I 5 tracted when folded into a very shallow depth of space and flat form to facilitate transportation, is very substantial when unfolded and set up for use.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 3'0 drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a folding iron bedstead when set up embody- 5 ing my invention. Fig. 2 is a partly-broken under view of the same when folded. Fig. 3 is a sectional longitudinal elevation upon the line 3 3 in Fig. 4, looking in direction of the arrow 00, of one end of the bedstead in part when set up.

tion of the bedstead as seen when set up. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section in partupon the line 5 5 of Fig. 4, and Fig. 6 is a sectional longitudinal elevation of one end of the bed- 5 stead in part as in the course of being folded or unfolded.

The main frame is constructed of angle-iron and is composed of longitudinal side rails A A and cross-bars-or end rails B B, the latter being secured on top of the side rails A A,

which have their horizontal flanges upper- Fig. 4 is an exterior end eleva-' most. Braces Z) 17 may be used to stiffen the connection of these side and end rails to-v gether. Mounted on top of these side rails A A at the one end, preferably the foot, of the bedstead is an additional angle-iron crossbar 0, which, in connection with the end rail 13 at the opposite end of the bedstead, serves to carry a wire mattress D, and which is secured to and adjustable toward or from the end rail B next adjacent to it by screw-bolts c c, to hold and give proper stretch or tautness to the mattress.

The legs proper E E, at opposite corners of the bedstead, are fitted with casters d below and are extended upward to form what may be termed the head and foot boards of the bedstead. These legs are constructed of flat bar-iron bent or bowed above to connect the opposite front and back legs, respectively, and to form the head and foot boards of the bedstead, transverse braces or rounds e a serving to stiffen the same. Said legs E E or head and foot portions are not pivoted to the side rails A A of the main frame, on the inner sides of the vertical flanges of which they are arranged, but are connected with said side rails by braces F F, pivoted at their one end to the legs bythe lower rounds e and at their other end to the side rails by suitable 8o attachments f. Thus the legs E E are free to slide up and down through openings or slots in the ends of the side rails when folding or unfolding the bedstead, and through fixed outer slide-pieces G at the ends of the side 8 rails-suitably recessed for the purpose, leaving lower projecting guide lips or stops g, and between said slide-pieces and fixed inner side guides h, secured to the under side of the horizontal flanges of the side rails A, so that when the bedstead is unfolded or set up by sliding the legs E upward. and curvilinearly,

as controlled by the pivoted braces F, which act as radiusrods, the legs are guided and stayed laterally by the fixed slide-pieces G 5 and side guides 71, between which they work and by the slots in the ends of the side rails A, and are held in their upright position or supported by the opposite edges bearing against the stops 9 on the fixed slide-pieces G I00 and against the inner recessed ends of the side rails or outer face of the cross bars or glc-iron side rails and curvilinearly moving rails 13. 13 Y this construction and combina- Is 1 I v a or shding legs connected with the side rails tion of parts the legs are very substantially locked or held in various directions when the by pivoted braces or radius-rods, the combibedstead is unfolded or set up, and all sepanation, with said side rails having recesses 3 5 5 rate catches may be dispensed with. Furin the ends of their upper horizontal flanges thermore, the fixed outer slide-pieces G and for the legs to move up and down through, of fixed inner side guides 71, in connection with outer slide-pieces for the legs fixedly secured the side rails, serve to restrain or prevent the to the ends of said rails, and fixed inner side too free closing movement of: the legs when guides secured to the under side of the upper IO set up, and consequently make the standing horizontal flanges of the side rails, said fixed position of the bedstead more secure. outer slide-pieces and inner side guides actlo fold the bedstead, the legs E, with their ing in connection with the side rails as a lock projecting upper connecting portions, are slid or support to the sliding legs when unfolded curvilinearly downward and inward between and to prevent the too free closing movement 15 the stops g of the fixed slide-pieces G and of said legs, essentially as specified.

fixed inner side guides 71, as clearly illus- 2. In a folding metal bedstead, the main trated in Fig. 6, for the one end of the bedframe composed of angle-iron side rails AA, stead, and the folding operation continued recessed at their ends, and connecting end until the legs, with theirattached casters and cross-rails B B, in combination with the up- 2o braces F, are shut up within the angle-iron wardly and downwardly sliding legs E E, the sides A of the frame, as shownin Fig. 53, when pivoted braces F, connecting said legs with the whole structure, so far as its depth or the side rails, the fixed outer slide-pieces G, thickness is concerned, is contained within having projecting stops g, and the inner side the side rails A, thereby making the same to guides 7L, adapted for movement of the slid- 25 be compacted within a flat and very shallow ing legs between them and the fixed slidecompa-ss, which cheapens and facilitates pieces, substantially as shown and described. transportation. T Having thus fully described my invention, I} lnmfl I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Witnesses: 30 Patent ALFRED LUROO'JT, 1. In afolding metal bedstead having an- EDGAR TATE. 

